[QUOTE=Shaun555;45202316]It's weird how different OEMs handle with different people. The two ASUS RoGs my sister and I use are the best laptops we've ever had(coming from a history of Sony Vaios).[/QUOTE]
Their customer support is shit, but most of their products are pretty solid imo. Besides their motherboards. Especially their AM2 motherboards. So much shit.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;44989706]So, I've been offered a phaser 7300 printer if I want it for free. Apparently a toner cartridge exploded in it and that's all that was wrong with it. It worked perfectly before that apparently and produces massive streaks because toner is everywhere now.
Apparently they go for around 800 refurbished. [URL]http://www.amazon.com/Xerox-7300-DN-Network-Duplexer/dp/B000076W20[/URL]
Did I score?[/QUOTE]
So I actually picked this thing up today. It has to weigh at least 120 pounds.
I'll dissect it sometime this week and see if I can get it operational. Here's to hoping.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;45202663]So Kaze recommended i play MGR:R
Fucking no regrets.
However I wish that it had the Saints Row 4 Penetrator so I can slap the fucking shit out of everyone with a oversized dildo.[/QUOTE]
Revengeance is so good. I just finished the Mistral fight. It's. So. Good.
A) PDFCreator is busted. Nothing fixes it. Bought premium support, better be worth it.
B) Electronics store promises 1 day shipping, ordered yesterday, paid by bank transfer, still not shipped today. Fuck.
[QUOTE=Warship;45200131]Nah, that's not it. Not all cable boxes have DVRs, and dedicated DVRs exist as well.
Actually, DVRs are pretty obsolete these days anyway. Most newer TVs can record digital programmes if you connect a hard drive to it.[/QUOTE]
Say what
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[QUOTE=Zephyrs;45202513]So I actually picked this thing up today. It has to weigh at least 120 pounds.
I'll dissect it sometime this week and see if I can get it operational. Here's to hoping.[/QUOTE]
At my old job I gutted those with a hammer and threw them in a dumpster. I don't know how my back survived.
Just physically removed the webcam from my laptop.
Tape is for pussies.
My laptop has a little LED that comes on when the webcam is being used. Dunno how reliable that is...
[QUOTE=Del91;45202932]Say what[/QUOTE]
A lot of TVs can record live shows onto a USB device. With digital signals it's a pretty simple concept; The TV just dumps the stream to the drive, no encoding needed.
[editline]24th June 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=nikomo;45203015]Just physically removed the webcam from my laptop.
Tape is for pussies.[/QUOTE]
???
[QUOTE=nikomo;45203015]Just physically removed the webcam from my laptop.
Tape is for pussies.[/QUOTE]
Now how are you gonna show your dick on Chatroulette?
[QUOTE=Warship;45203143]A lot of TVs can record live shows onto a USB device. With digital signals it's a pretty simple concept; The TV just dumps the stream to the drive, no encoding needed.
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This is news to me
[QUOTE=Adamhully;45203128]My laptop has a little LED that comes on when the webcam is being used. Dunno how reliable that is...[/QUOTE]
Depends on the model, but a lot have the LED soldered to the webcam power. So short of physically desoldering the connection, the light will be on if the webcam is
[QUOTE=garychencool;45203157]This is news to me[/QUOTE]
On our living room TV you can even set up timer recording by choosing a show on the guide, and I believe you can make it recurring as well.
Best part though, is that the TV has an RGB LED in the front so you know what it is doing even if it's off.
If you've got a timer recoding set, it lights brown, and goes pink during recording.
[QUOTE=Chains!;45203151]Now how are you gonna show your dick on Chatroulette?[/QUOTE]
Couldn't do that before, still trying to find a camera with a wide enough lens to fit my entire girth.
I've been wondering: Why don't LCD screens have individually backlit pixels, surely you could make LED's small enough to fit behind each pixel?
[QUOTE=nikomo;45203246]Couldn't do that before, still trying to find a camera with a wide enough lens to fit my entire girth.[/QUOTE]
I think it's wide enough, man
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[QUOTE=alien_guy;45203251]I've been wondering: Why don't LCD screens have individually backlit pixels, surely you could make LED's small enough to fit behind each pixel?[/QUOTE]
That kinda invalidate the point of OLED then, I mean surely it'd use more power than OLED or AMOLED.
Finished that Coursera Python course yesterday. I [B]love[/B] how elegant it is, I want to start reading up on pygame or website scraping and do something with it.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;45202663]So Kaze recommended i play MGR:R
Fucking no regrets.
However I wish that it had the Saints Row 4 Penetrator so I can slap the fucking shit out of everyone with a oversized dildo.[/QUOTE]
yesss a domino effect, soon everyone here will have played MGR. It's great.
Where can I nab a free short domain? Dynamic DNS is too long imo.
[QUOTE=alien_guy;45203251]I've been wondering: Why don't LCD screens have individually backlit pixels, surely you could make LED's small enough to fit behind each pixel?[/QUOTE]
I think the biggest problem would be difference in light output, you want them to be uniformly bright, but I'm pretty sure that's quite difficult to achieve. Not to mention thickness/weight/cost
I wish LCDs didn't have to use back lighting, it fucks with the black levels. Its improved recently but its still noticeable.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;45203408]I wish LCDs didn't have to use back lighting, it fucks with the black levels. Its improved recently but its still noticeable.[/QUOTE]
So... how exactly is the LCD supposed to light up, then?
[QUOTE=nikomo;45203015]Just physically removed the webcam from my laptop.
Tape is for pussies.[/QUOTE]
I laugh at people who are paranoid about webcams
[QUOTE=itsthejayden;45203296]Where can I nab a free short domain? Dynamic DNS is too long imo.[/QUOTE]
try freedns. Maybe you find something you like.
[url]http://freedns.afraid.org/[/url]
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45203550]I laugh at people who are paranoid about webcams[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I laughed at people who thought that the majority of the governments on this planet were recording everything that everyone is doing.
Looks who's fucking laughing now.
My modem is now going out multiple times per day. I know it's not the router this time because I can actually login to it and see it tell me that the connection to the modem is down and I can't login to the modem :v:
[editline]24th June 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45203550]I laugh at people who are paranoid about webcams[/QUOTE]
Used to until there was a report that they managed to bypass the "activity" light so you can't tell if it's on or off. But in any case I point mine towards the wall and just flip it towards me during streams.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;45203618]
Used to until there was a report that they managed to bypass the "activity" light so you can't tell if it's on or off. But in any case I point mine towards the wall and just flip it towards me during streams.[/QUOTE]
I replied in that thread saying that article is a extremely editorialized article designed to drive fear into the readers by overexaggerated bullshit. A lot of the webcams have the LED soldered onto the main trace where the webcam sensors gets its main power soruce from. It's physically impossible for the LED to be turned off at all in this scenario.
Even if the LED isn't soldered onto the main power trace and is connected to an unique pin of the webcam controller chip, chances are you still can't override it because most stock webcam drivers don't usually come with subroutines allowing full access to low level instructions for the controllers (such as a command to only turn off the LED), and this is assuming a even rarer scenario where the webcam controller is even accepting low level commands from USB in the first place.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;45203725]I replied in that thread saying that article is a extremely editorialized article designed to drive fear into the readers by overexaggerated bullshit. A lot of the webcams have the LED soldered onto the main trace where the webcam sensors gets its main power soruce from. It's physically impossible for the LED to be turned off at all in this scenario. Even if the LED isn't soldered onto the main power trace and has its own GPIO pin connected to the webcam controller chip, chances are you still can't override it because most stock webcam drivers don't usually come with subroutines allowing full access to low level instructions for the controllers, and this is assuming the webcam controller is even accepting low level commands from USB in the first place (aka even less likely).[/QUOTE]
I know some of those words.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;45203771]I know some of those words.[/QUOTE]
The LED is attached directly to the cable that the webcam gets its power from, so the LED will light up if you power up the webcam.
Problem being, you won't know what the setup on your webcam is, unless you open your laptop enough to have a look. Mine was a no-brainer, it didn't have an LED.
[QUOTE=nikomo;45203590]Yeah, I laughed at people who thought that the majority of the governments on this planet were recording everything that everyone is doing.
Looks who's fucking laughing now.[/QUOTE]
nobody gives a deep fried shit about what your face and a small area of whatever room the webcam is in looks like
generally the whole "i have nothing to hide!" thing is a very poor excuse to dismiss privacy concerns but unless you're holding up important documents or committing crimes in front of your webcam, what possible use could an image of your face be when you're already in the system?
honestly if you're worried that your webcam is watching you without knowing then you should rip out the microphone as well since most laptops have those
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